New U.S. -British system to book flights in Iraq within minutes
Travelport company decided to use Galileo system to book airline tickets , that has been used by International Aviation Organization, which allows airlines to book tickets for travelers in few minutes after it was a process that would takes hours or days .
The company's decision to enter the new system to the Iraqi market came after lifting Iraq from the seventh item that had been imposed on it by the United Nations in 1990.
“The company produces travel , tourism and airline Systems and has a special tickets booking system , such as Galileo , Lord Spaniards and Apollo It also has a special bookings accommodation as car-like system as ( Rooms and More ) for cars , hotels and trains,” The director of the sales Office of Travelport company in Kurdistan , Omar Mohammed al-Khalidi told “Shafaq News “.
He added that his office represents this company in Kurdistan and Iraq in general , noting that the company also has offices in Baghdad , Najaf , Karbala , Basra , Tikrit , Sulaimaniyah and Erbil .
He explained that his office is considered the main office in Kurdistan which is Travelport Office, but for marketing Galileo system exclusively only , the only product and is responsible for marketing it
On how to deal with the Galileo system to book airline tickets, he said when bsb bank comes , it will separate the commission dues for companies and airlines in the accounts of these companies, noting that the owner of the tour company only deposit a sum of money and when it runs out , it will be renewed again.
On the number of travel and tourism companies that are currently dealing with this new system, Khalidi said that the number of companies that are currently in Erbil exceeds 300 companies .
He noted that the number of companies that are currently dealing with their office in Erbil is 155 Companies ; 115 companies in Sulaymaniyah While the office covers about 93% of the Iraqi provinces.
Iraq had been put under Chapter VII , after the UN Security Council Resolution 1990 , and stated in the third paragraph of Item to stop Iraq’s links with the outside world in economic relations and of rail, sea , air, postal , telegraphic, radio means and other means of transportation .
